Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 13:23 
Pet Ring-necked parakeet saves the day!FORT LAUDERDALE, Fl. A couple credits their 3-year-old parrot with alerting them of a fire that broke out in their laundry room overnight Tuesday.
Saturday, January 11, 2014 at 13:25 
LORIKEET LOVE: Rainbow lorikeets. Picture by JIM THOMSONThe rainbow lorikeet is one of the most dramatically coloured birds on the east coast of Australia.
Saturday, January 11, 2014 at 3:26 
Cheeky: This brightly-coloured Parakeet made a sudden appearance in front of a speed camera on the M6The cheeky parrot spent some time peering into the camera on the M6 in Staffordshire this morning.
Monday, January 6, 2014 at 15:16 
An extraordinarily rare Australian bird, has important consequences for conservation. Illustration by John Gould
The Night Parrot has surely been amongst the most enigmatic birds of the world and deservedly the ‘holy grail’ for many birders. It originally had an extremely widespread distribution across a large proportion of Australia, but, for about the last one hundred years, there were no confirmed observations of the species. From this we would have concluded that the species was probably extinct, except for the fact that recently-dead specimens have turned up occasionally, most notably in 1999 and 2006. Perhaps encouraged by these latest records, many birders have invested large amounts of time and money in pursuit of this ghost-like bird. It has, for these people, been their ‘holy grail’. We have felt similarly, tried to keep informed regarding the species, and often fantasizing about having an encounter with it.
Thursday, January 2, 2014 at 2:32 
Blue-throated Macaws fly free over the Barba Azul Nature Reserve. Photograph by D. LebbinBolivia's Barba Azul Nature Reserve Protects Hundreds of Bird and Mammal Species
